Ive seen it explained like this and i liked it. I like to think of the brain and its neural pathways as a snowglobe with the little bits in the globe being your neurons.

Taking shrooms is like shaking the snowglobe and letting all the bits fall and land in a different order, and the neurons are all still there but the pathways have changed.

At least for me i was super depressed, and have been most of my life. After doing shrooms it feels like im still the same person but i can look back and i feel like a different person now in the way i think, the way i thought before, my default neural pathways were all negative. Any stimuli would set me down the path my brain was used to taking, which was usually negative. But after starting tripping it felt like i was able to understand i was following old habits or thought patterns but that i didnt need to continue following them.

I was able to notice when my brain would start an OCD type spiral thought pattern as a sort of panic disorder thing, and was able to just kind of stop myself. Where before it was almost impossible to stop myself and id just be full of dread.

Now i feel like a normal person, but i dont feel like permanently fried or anything. I just feel like i was in a very bad mental state before and mushrooms helped pull me out and i became who i always was again deep down but i had buried after being in fight or flight for so long.

After a while without shrooms, like a few months, i feel like i slowly fall back into those old patterns but i just do a few trips again and it sort of resets my brain.

Im not diagnosed professionally but i definitely have some type of OCD/adhd/autism/major depression disorder stuff going on that seems to fade away with mushrooms

Not sure if this is what you meant with your question